I was talking with a cycling friend of mine the other day and we got into a discussion on crank length and the topic of Lance Armstrong’s Crank length came up, he thought he rides shorter cranks since Lance is more of a spinner then a masher. So anyway I did some digging around got the specs. on his  US Postal Trek 5900 bike.  So here’s the specs.

• Frame Size 58cm
• Crank Length 175mm
• Bar Width 44cm
• Stem Length 130cm

I was surprised that Lance at 5′ 9″ in height would ride the same length cranks as me at 6′ 1″ and basically the same frame height too, not sure about the reach on the bike though but I also ride with 44cm bars. Trek’s typically have a shorter top tube and I ride a Cannodale which has most likely a longer top tube so he’d probably be too stretched out on my bike.

I’m wondering now if he rides different length cranks on his time trial bike or any other bike, or his mountain bike, that would be interesting to know. I’ll update this post once I find some more info about it.

Lance had a strong showing at the Tour Down Under yesterday, even surprising himself with his perfomance. I’m so excited to see Lance racing again this season, espepecally since I’m an older rider as well 2 yrs younger then Lance. I read in another article as well that his coach Chris Carmichael had to slow Lance’s training progress down a bit so he doesn’t peak too soon as he was progressing faster then expected. I predict that if Lance does well this year that the average age of retiring cyclists will be extended almost a decade lol, we’ll see though.

I would love to see some power files of Lance to get an idea of what kind of numbers he’s putting out, but I guess that he and his coaches might want to keep that hush hush for now.

Go Lance!